The Nature and Severity of Self-Reported Embarrassing Circumstances

Miller, Rowland S.

doi:10.1177/0146167292182010

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“…Embarrassment accounts from hundreds of high school students and adults (Miller 1992) indicate that the most common causes of embarrassment are "normative public deficiencies"-situations in which a person behaves in a clumsy, absent-minded, or hapless way (tripping in front of a crowd, forgetting someone's name, unintended bodily-induced noises). Other common embarrassmentinducing situations include awkward social interactions and being conspicuous (e.g., during the "birthday" song).…”

Section: Embarrassmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior

Tangney

Stuewig

Mashek

2007

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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Moral emotions represent a key element of our human moral apparatus, influencing the link between moral standards and moral behavior. This chapter reviews current theory and research on moral emotions. We first focus on a triad of negatively valenced "self-conscious" emotionsshame, guilt, and embarrassment. As in previous decades, much research remains focused on shame and guilt. We review current thinking on the distinction between shame and guilt, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two moral emotions. Several new areas of research are highlighted: research on the domain-specific phenomenon of body shame, styles of coping with shame, psychobiological aspects of shame, the link between childhood abuse and later proneness to shame, and the phenomena of vicarious or "collective" experiences of shame and guilt. In recent years, the concept of moral emotions has been expanded to include several positive emotions-elevation, gratitude, and the sometimes morally relevant experience of pride. Finally, we discuss briefly a morally relevant emotional process-other-oriented empathy. Keywordsshame; guilt; pride; elevation; gratitude OVERVIEWWhat confluence of factors foster a moral life lived to the benefit of self and others? This review summarizes current theory and research on moral emotions, offering a framework for thinking about the ways in which morally relevant emotions may moderate the link between moral standards and moral decisions, and ultimately moral behavior.Living a moral, constructive life is defined by a weighted sum of countless individual, morally relevant behaviors enacted day in and day out (plus an occasional particularly selfdefining moment). As imperfect human beings, however, our behavior does not always bear a one-to-one correspondence to our moral standards.Many potential explanations exist for the discrepancy between behavioral decisions (intentions) and actual behavior in both moral and nonmoral domains. Historically, much social psychological theory and research was devoted to understanding the imperfect link between intentions (e.g., moral decisions) and behavior. Field theory, the very foundation of social psychology, highlights the variability of individual behavior as a function of

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Section: Embarrassmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior

Tangney

Stuewig

Mashek

2007

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

2,361

2,336

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“…As relationships become more intimate, each partner's face becomes bound up in the identity and behavior of the other. Inappropriate conduct by one threatens the relationship-specific face shared by both (Cupach & Metts, 1994) and can be as embarrassing as one's own conduct (Miller, 1992), This may result in decreased quality, satisfaction, and length of relationships (Petronio, Olson, & Dollar, 1989 People may also harm relationships by failing to meet their own normative standards.…”

Section: Injunctive Norms Adherence and Social Ordermentioning

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Put down that phone and talk to me: Understanding the roles of mobile phone norm adherence and similarity in relationships

Hall

Baym

Miltner

2014

Mobile Media & Communication

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This study uses co-orientation theory to examine the impact of mobile phone use on relational quality across three copresent contexts. It investigates the relationship between perceived similarity, actual similarity, and understanding of mobile phone usage on relationship outcomes, and uses a new measure of mobile relational interference to assess how commitment, satisfaction, and liking are affected by perceptions of relational partners’ mobile phone use. Contrary to popular belief, the results from this study of 69 dyads reveals that, at least within a sample of young Americans, failing to adhere to injunctive (i.e., societal) norms regarding mobile phone usage does not impact relational quality. Rather, results indicate that perceived adherence to participants’ own internal standards—by both the participant, and the participant’s relational partner—and perceived similarity between partners were more influential.

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“…In relationships, women's accuracy in understanding men's negative humor use may be related to less relationship satisfaction because men are more likely to use humor in ways that women may find socially undesirable (Raniseski, 1998). In addition, women are more prone to experiencing embarrassment in general (Miller, 1992;Sabini, Siepmann, Stein, & Meyerowitz, 2000;Withers & Vernon, 2006). In a study on embarrassment caused by relational partners' actions (i.e., bad dancing), Thorton (2003) found that women were more embarrassed by men's behavior than men were of women's behavior.…”

Section: Coorientation Sex and Embarrassmentmentioning

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Is it something I said? Sense of humor and partner embarrassment

Hall

2010

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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This manuscript explores one romantic partner's humor use and the resulting embarrassment felt by the other partner using coorientation theory. Self-report and partner perception data were gathered from 106 couples (N ¼ 212) in romantic relationships, and two coorientation variables were calculated. Actor-Partner Independence Models estimated the relationships between four humor styles and partner embarrassment. Aggressive humor was related to partner embarrassment and self-defeating humor with feeling embarrassed by one's partner. For women, perceived similarity in aggressive and self-defeating humor mitigated embarrassment, and greater understanding of men's self-defeating humor was related to embarrassment. In Study 2, a 2 Â 2 experiment (N ¼ 222) tested whether self-defeating humor predicts embarrassment or whether embarrassment predicts self-defeating humor use, with results supporting the former.

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The Nature and Severity of Self-Reported Embarrassing Circumstances

Cited by 131 publications

References 18 publications

Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior

Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior

Put down that phone and talk to me: Understanding the roles of mobile phone norm adherence and similarity in relationships

Is it something I said? Sense of humor and partner embarrassment

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